November 15, 2025 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech HYPR and Yubico have been focused on the mission to eliminate passwords and enhance identity security. Yubico’s push for FIDO-certified hardware authenticators and HYPR’s role as part of the FIDO Alliance mission to reduce the reliance on passwords have brought workers and clients into… Read More

November 15, 2025 @ 11:43 am By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s central bank has completed a live trial of using a wholesale central bank digital currency (CBDC) to settle overnight interbank loans, moving its experiments with tokenised assets onto an operational test network. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said the trial, conducted on its… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the derivatives and securities exchange network, announced that Cboe Clear Europe, its pan-European clearing house, has reached a key step in the development of its Securities Financing Transactions (SFT) clearing service, with BNY (NYSE: BK), a financial services company,… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 6:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bitcoin, the world’s most popular crypto, has cratered in recent days. During the last week alone, Bitcoin has lost over 8% of its value. At this moment, Bitcoin is trading under $95,000. Bitcoin started 2025 at around $93,000, so it hasn’t moved much if you… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FanDuel, the online gaming firm in North America, part of Flutter Entertainment (NYSE: FLUT), and CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), the world’s derivatives marketplace, unveiled that they will launch prediction markets via the FanDuel Predicts app that will expand access to financial markets for clients in… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 5:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brookfield announced its private wealth platform has partnered with iCapital to launch a new interactive asset allocation tool for financial advisors and their clients. Powered by iCapital Architect, “Alts Allocator” utilizes three research-based high-net-worth investor profiles to illustrate how adding alternative investments to a traditional… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 2:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins spoke at the 9th Annual Fintech Conference held at the Philadelphia Fed this week. He shared that he expects the Commission to establish a “token taxonomy” based on existing securities law, while acknowledging that the current regime has limitations. Atkins said… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 2:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Thunes, the so-called “Smart Superhighway” to move money across the globe, announces a new collab with Mashreq, a financial institution in the MENA region, to launch real-time mobile wallet payouts for millions of Mashreq customers. Enabled by Thunes’ Direct Global Network, the partnership will allow… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Government action, including the shutdown and a welcome IRS decision, along with market analysis and stablecoin talk, dominated Web3 minds this week. Growing Ethereum stablecoin volume a good sign “While we continue to see some negative sentiment around ETH due to its decline from nearly… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Aave Labs is reporting that it will soon roll out regulated on and off-ramping for its native stablecoin GHO and other stablecoins integrated into Aave Labs products across the European Economic Area via its service, called Push. This service is made possible by Push Virtual… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 1:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Public has announced the acquisition of Alto’s CryptoIRA business, further expanding how investors are able to build “long-term” wealth via crypto in tax-advantaged accounts. For Alto clients, this marks a new phase in their journeys. The transition is expected to take place by early next… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 12:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Capital Economics, commissioned by SME lender iwoca, reveals that SMEs receiving a loan are able to boost their monthly revenues by an average of nearly 20%. The recent analysis, which is said to be based on data from current accounts of iwoca customers,… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 12:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), one of the world’s digital financial services platforms, announces the launch of products that aim to enable greater autonomy for customers. The Nu Guaranteed Limit (Nu Limite Garantido) and the Limit Mission (Missão Limite) reinforce Nubank’s positioning as “a partner in the… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 12:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta, the software platform for private capital, announced that it has acquired Sirvatus, a loan administration platform for private credit funds. The acquisition reportedly makes Carta the first integrated platform for private credit fund CFOs, combining fund administration, loan operations, and investor reporting into an… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform claiming global coverage for person and business verification, announced the launch of Trulioo credit decisioning, which is described as a capability that delivers financial, credit, and risk insights via the Trulioo identity platform. The roll-out follows a 102% YoY surge in… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pundi AI, a decentralized protocol transforming AI training data into community-owned assets, this week announced a new collaboration with Spheron Network, a decentralized compute platform. This collaboration is set to create an end-to-end pipeline that enables developers to build and ship real AI products faster… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Securitize, a digital asset platform for tokenizing real-world assets, and Cantor Equity Partners II (Nasdaq: CEPT), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by an affiliate of Cantor Fitzgerald, revealed that on November 12, 2025, Securitize Holdings, Inc. (Pubco), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Securitize, confidentially submitted… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 8:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Betterment, a wealth and savings platform, has recently announced the launch of self-directed investing, a new offering that enables retail clients to buy and sell various stocks and ETFs commission-free. Via self-directed investing (SDI), Betterment extends its customer-first, intuitive experience to investors looking for more… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY (NYSE: BK), a financial services company, announced the launch of the BNY Dreyfus Stablecoin Reserves Fund (BSRXX), a money market fund intended to support institutional adoption of digital assets in the liquidity ecosystem. The fund is meant to enable U.S. stablecoin issuers and other… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) is launching 401k Pay, a solution designed to convert 401(k) account assets into a retirement income. Offered starting from November 17 to the company’s corporate plan sponsor or plan participant clients, the digital solution provides 401(k) recordkeeping, deposit options and… Read More